2002 Alamos Mendoza Malbec

In this podcast, Chronicle Wine Writer W. Blake Gray brings you the Wine of the Week. But this $10 wine from Bodega Catena Zapata, one of the most prestigious wineries in Argentina, is also one of the Chronicle’s Bargain Wines of the Year .

Blake tells how he and wine expert Leslie Sbrocco, who alternate writing the Bargain Wines column, sampled hundreds of bargain wines during the year. Both present their list of Top 10 Bargain Wines of 2005, which appears in Thursday’s Wine section.